12 TItE GORdON ppROACIt . . . ,y:' " "t' ;P :.- { { M :. I ,,- ':,.. :" '>.. r t ;; * % ), " : 0( :;" >J . ". ":" " , " , t . { J (I". ^ , . . :::< 'I. 'I ''Ø i f' i: "' " . . . '. ' ''' (>. -=--:. .:, ', . > é Þ1"<. . '1.:: <%: 'ø:. ,i -t' i - I I .i _/ -dii " <<TIll' I };<o< \ 'i- \ '""".. \ ""ø-'" ....- p "-- For anywhere under the sun... our jacket in blue Burgee denim, lined rakishly with our own cocktail flag lining, topping white ducks. The jacket, about $80; the white ducks, about $27. The Gordon Approach in odd jackets, trousers and suits . . . at the finest specialty stores; or write Gordon of Philadelphia, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019. @!J:l2DQ!Y@ 1-. 1\ 1 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN Guinea-Bissau, plus contemporary :.Ylakonde carvings and paintings from Mozambique Through Feb. 1.... WESTBETH. 155 Bank St.: Paintings, sculptures, prints, and photo- graphs by members of this artists' coöpera- tive, as well as by nonn1embers. Through Jan 12. (Fridays, 5 to 8; Saturday" and Sundays 2 to 6 ) PHOTOGRAPHY LEE FRIEDLANDER-This exhibition of photographs taken within the last decade reveals Fried- lander to be a photographic precursor of the Photo-Realist school of painting, whose sub- ject is the America of motels, appliance stores. fried-chicken stands, TV -centered home:::" car-cluttered Main Streets, and gar- ishly dressed people, and whose stylistic frame of reference is the amateur snapshot. Friedlander's small black-and-white pictures isolate the ugly and the familiar, and lay bare the core of etnptiness and meanness that lies behind the shining façades of our com- mercialism. Unlike Pop Art, which was painterly and abstract, and took a benign, even celebratory, stance toward con1n1ercial culture, Photo-Realism is photographic (many of the Photo-Reahst painters simply copy blown-up photographs they have pro- jected onto their enormou,> canvases) and cruelly noticing of things as they are. Fried- lander's chilling pictures suggest that the crux of Photo-Realism is its basis in a cer- tain kind of photograph (one that Fried- lander and other members of his generation, as it were, invented); at the same time, our way of looking at Friedlander's photographs is undoubtedly affected by the enorn10US tours de force of Este:::" Eddy, Going:::" et al. And o it goes with the knotty tangle of relationships between photography, painting, and "reality" that Photo-Realism has created, and that is the probable source of its strange interest and power. Through Feb. 9. (Museum of Modern A.rt, I I 'vV. 53rd St. 'vVeekdays, I] to 6, and Thursday evenings until 9, Sundays, noon to 6.) WILLIAM LARsoN-F\n avant-garde artist who does collages, pictures transmitted by a Dex teleprinter machine, and photographs. The collages employ zippers, lace, embroidery, bones, metal hinges, and fabric printed with indigo photographs. The photographs are surrealistic. Example: a Christmas tree in an empty white room out of which roots are growing and wires lead to electrical outlets. The Dex pictures are almost as tedious to look at as they would be to explain. Through Saturday, Jan. 4. (Light, 1018 :\1adison F\ve., at 79th St. Closed Thursday, Jan. 2.) JAN GROOVER-Conceptual prints. done in series. Through Saturday, Jan. 4. (Light IOI8 Madison Ave., at 79th St. Closed Thursday, Jan. 2.) EVA RUBINSTEIN I JOSEPH SALTZER-Photographs. Through Jan. 25. (Neikrug, 224 E. 68th St. Thursdays through Saturdays, ] to 6; Sun- days, 2 to 5.) DORIS ULMANN (I882-I934)-Platinum prints of A,ppalachian Mountain people, black peo- ple from South Carolina, and still-lifes. Through Jan. 18. (Witkin, 243 E. 60th St. Open Thursday evenings until 8.) GROUP SHows-At the MIDTOWN Y GALLERY. 344 E. 14th St.: The stated intention of a large ex- hibition here called "Coming of Age in A.merica: A. Critical Exhibition Comparing Our A.ttitude Toward Youth and A.ging" is to illustrate "the great yet empty overvaluing of youth and things youthful, and the equally great yet empty undervaluing of aging and the aged, as t11anifested in the United States." But the show, to which thirty-eight photog- raphers contributed, fails in this at11bitious and commendable purpose: it registers on the viewer as just a miscellany of photographs of people of various ages by photographers of varying competence which could as plausibly be titled "Life in France" or "Photographic Clichés of Today." What is more, and worse, the show often reflects the very attitude it is supposed to be against. One of the realities of growing old is that you don't look as good in a bathing suit at seventy as you do at seven- teen, and one of the prerogatives of age, one likes to think. is to be spared the importuni- ties of young photographers out to teach the Lesson of Diane A.rbus with innocent sun- bathers. However, there are good pictures in the show-one by its organizer, Larry Siegel, of an unforgettable young woman with a towel around her shoulders caught in a mo- nlent of mysterious anxiety and another, by John Gani." of a cashier in a lnovie house (an aged \\oman with a tragic, desperately painted face, sitting in her glass box in front of a sign advertising "The Seduction of lnga ") and they only confirm one's doubts about "thematic" exhibitions, and one's be- lief in photography as art rather than propa- gdnda. Through Jan. 17. (Sundays through rhursday , noon to 8; Fridays, noon to 4.) ." ELLIOTT. 1018 Madison 1\ve., at 79th St.: ]vian Ray, r. H. Emerson, and Julia M. Cameron are an10ng those represented in this show of more than fifty photographs Through Feb. 1. (Open :\1ondays).. . INTER- NATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY. I 130 Fifth A ve., at 94th St.: A. hundred black-and-white photographs taken in Russia by Henri Car- tier-Bresson. . . . ç \V orks by 'vVerner Bischof, Robert Capa, David Seymour, Lewis \i\-. Hine, Roman Vishniac, and Dan \Veiner. . . . f][ Ernst Haas, Burt Glinn, and Jay Maisel are included in a group show of color photography. All through Feb. 15 (Open Sundays.). . . SCHOELKOPF. 825 Madison Ave., at 69th St.: Examples of gravure work by Edward Steichen, Thomas Annan, Ferdi- nand Ongania, and others. Through Satur- day, Jan. 11.... WHITNEY MUSEUM. 945 Madi- son Ave., at 75th St.: A historical survey of At11erican photography from 184 I to the present, made up of over two hunch-ed and fifty pictures by eighty-five rankin1:{ photog- raphers. Through Jan. 19. ('vVeekdav c . I] to 6, and Tuesday evenings until 10; Sundays dnd New Year's Day, noon to 6.) MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM. Fifth F\ve. at 82nd St.- 1\11 exhibit jointly organized by the museutn dnd the ational Museums of France to com- tnen10rate the hundredth anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris. It in- cludes works from the museum and from the Louvre. a,> well as from public and private collections in the United States and Europe. Some, :::,uch a:::, Renoir's "Le Moulin de la Ga- lette," have never before been shown in this country. Through Feb. 16.... f][ "Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design," a show of costumes worn by such film stars as Mary Pickford Katharine Hepburn, and Barbra Streisand. Also visible: Clark Gable's dress- ing gown Through Aug. 3 I. . . . f][ Five small paintings of scenes closely observed from na- ture by d young California realist, Max'well Hendler, make up the first in a series of ex- hibits focussing on artists whose achieve- Inents are not yet recognized by the genernl public. Through Jan. 19.... f][ Italian Ren- ai sance drawings frOln the Louvre by Raph- ael, Correggio, Michelangelo, and others. Through Sunday, Jan. 5.... f][ 'vV orks lent by art dealers from twelve countries, in addi- tion to pieces owned by the tnuseum and pur- chased from the art dealer,> Joseph and Er- nest Brutnmer, in a display intended to point up the importance of dealers in the formation of museums and private collections. Through Sunday, Jan. 5.... f][ "The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry," an exhibit of the illu- Ininated Book of Hours, the newly published fac,>imile of it. and color transparencies. Through Jan. 26. (Tuesdays, 10 to 8 :45; Wednesdays through Saturdays, 10 to 4 :45 ; Sundays and New Year's Day, I I to 4:45.) MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. I I W. 53rd St.- A.n exhibition entitled "Chairs by Charles Ren- nie Mackintosh"-twenty examples, repro- duced frOl11 the designs of the Scottish archi- tect and. designer (1868-1928) Through J an. 12. . . . f][ American prints (19 I 3-63), in- cluding works by John Marin and Robert Rau,>chenberg. Through :\1arch 3. . . . f][ Eight young artists, among them J an Dibbets and Dorothea Rockburne, frOt11 Europe, Amer- ica, and Australia. Through Sunday, Jan. 5. (Weekdays, I I to 6, and Thursday evenings until 9; Sundays, noon to 6.) GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. 107 I Fifth Ave., at 89th St.-A retrospective of the work of Vene- zuelan artist Jesus Rafael Soto, including a new walk-through construction made of plas- tic filatnents. Through Jan. 26. . . . f][ Modern sculptures by, atnong others, Brancusi, Arp, and Boccioni, from the Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston collection and from the mu- seum's collection Through Feb. 2. (Tues- days, 10 to 9, with no admission charge